Re: NQC programming guide

I think you need to learn to program in text-based languages in general, first.
Since NQC stands for "Not Quite C," you should learn the basics of programming
in C or C++.

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

I'm sure someone will come in here and decry that approach and tell you to start
with a newer language such as Java, but I disagree. C is a procedural language,
and so is NQC. Java is an object-oriented language, a programming concept that
takes procedural programming a step farther but will require an additional
learning curve. C++ can do it both ways.

But more importantly, NQC is a limited subset of C and C++, so it really makes
sense to learn to program in those languages anyway.

By the way, if you just want to learn enough to get by in NQC, you can skip
everything from "pointers" onward in that C++ tutorial. If you find yourself
"getting it" and things are "clicking" for you, then by all means continue your
education in those advanced concepts.

Caveat: I learned BASIC in elementary school, promptly forgot most of what I
learned, and then tried teaching myself C++ in junior high. That was a failure.
Later as a college freshman I re-learned programming in a formal computer
science setting, and that was much more helpful to me. What I'm saying is that
when I was starting out, having someone teaching me to program produced better
results than when I tried learning the basics on my own. Now I'm at a point
where self-education is equally useful, but each person is different, so good
luck!